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The Search for Small finds Life on a Gradient
Posted about 26 days ago on Byte Size Biology
In Chapter 3 of The House at Pooh Corner, Rabbit organizes a search for Small, “One of my friends and relations.” Like a good manager (or scientist) Pooh lays out a program:
As soon as Rabbit was out of sight, Pooh remembered that he had forgotten to ask who Small was, and whether he was the sort of friend-and-relation who settled on one’s nose, or the sort who got trodden on by mistake, and as it was Too Late Now, he thought he would begin the Hunt by looking for Piglet,...